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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19
be reached the corner of Washington
and North Division Streets, and thus
ha

be reached the corner of Washington
and North Division Streets, and thus
gained the street.
VIM J. Mann, one of the proprletors
of the house, and his wife, had thrill
ing experience in getting out. Mrs.
Mann was terribly burned about the
head. arms and legs. Their little
daughter, Jennie, was also badly
burned.
Five girls, who roomed on the fifth
fioor. made a rope out OF bed clothes
and hung it out of the window,
hut none seemed to have courage
to start, at last one of the five
took hold and swung TO the window
ledge from which she was rescued;
three Others came down ia the same
manner and then the fifth girl started
down. She had gone but little dis
lance when the rope parted and down
she went four stories. Strange to say
she was not killed. Her legs were ter
ribly bruised, her back badly injured
and her face and arms were in fright
fui condition from burns. Mark Os
borne, day clerk and assistant manager
of the hotel, is missing. 1t is believed
he persisted. William A. Haven, OF
Helena, Montana, was burned about
the hands, feet and face, and is suffer
ing from the shock. He IS chief en-
gineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
r. H. Humes occupied q room on
the third floor. He was awakened by
the electric bells, and after arousing
several people on the same floor,
Jumped through a window to the
kitchen roof; there every thing was IN
flames; others were on the same roof.
Il
door going through the kitchen sky
light and out through the flames and
escaped: he left five persons on the
kitchen roof and thinks they must all
have perished.as they did not attempt
to follow him through the flames. -Four
are dead among those who jumped from
the building, William Purcell, broker
of this CITY, an unknown man and two
unknown women. The burned building
was erected in 1856, for hotel purposes,
and was called st. James hotel. The
hotel was not a success, financially and
after a struggling existence 1t passed,
in 1864, into the hands Of the Young
Mems Christian Association. After the
association gave up its rooms in the
old building in October last, Robert
Stafford, s. P. Whitaker and W. J.
Mann took lease of the property for
hotel purposes for a term of years.
Whitaker reports thata large amount of
diamonds were in the hotel last ight.
B. Robinson, of Lambert & Co., had
stock valued at 500, 600 deposited in the
safe. A Mr.. Adler had in his room
$4,000 worth, and Mr.. Smith had
another considerable stock, but the
amount was not known.
The body of one woman recovered
this morning was identified as that OF
Kate Wolf, of Lockport. Mary WEIGH,
a servant at the Richmond, is missing,
and still another servant, and it is be
lieved they must be included among
the dead. r. A. Kahn and III. d.
Rumsey, of New York, who were so
seriously burned, are not expected to
live.
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Cleaning out Rats.

Frank Coney and Terry Adams have
been cleaning out the rats about their
store for several days, and their efforts
have met with great success. Their
building is of brick, and the rats had
gnawed hole through the floor and
entered through that. Their destruc
ton of meat and corn was alarming. and
Messrs- Coney 6 Adams were unable to
prevent their deyastations. At last it
was decided that if large wire trap
were put Immediately over the hole the
rats would pass through the hole into
the trap. This plan was tried and on
Saturday morning last the large round
trap was filed with rats of the largest
species. They were so densely packed
that some We're dead at the bottom.
The trap contained twenty four alive
and dead. The trap was placed in a
large tub of water and forced to the
hottom,- and the rats were thus
drowned. Tie trap was replaced over
the hole, and on Sunday morning il
contained eight; on Monday morning.
nine; on Tuesday morning, one: on
Wednesday morning. three. Forty
hve slain 70 date.-AaYkinsy;lle (Gs. }
Dispatch.
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The London Corporation orookednsss


LONDON, March IS. The Parlia-
mentary committee appointed to in
vestigate the charges against the Lon
don corporation, held its first session
to-day. Lord Harrington presided.
Mr.. Fierth, formerly member of Par
Lament, deposed that he had examined
the accounts of the corporation. He
found that special committee had
been appointed in 1882, to oppose the
reform bill, and that there was ex-
pended by the committee a total of
$4,000. He said that, practically, the
city accounts had never been audited,
Notwithstanding the fact that the
corporation employed so called
auditors, who, witness added, were
liverymen, without practical knowledge
of their duties. Meetings held in sup
port of the reform bill were raided by
roughs, who had been supplied with
thousands of forged tickets of admission
by the corporation officials.
A man named Hodge made an afi-
davit that he had been engaged to bride
the roughs to break up the reform meet
ings.
Mr.. Scott, city chamberlain, being
sworn, presented written official pro-
test against the production of the cor
poration's accounts, on the ground that
the House of G mmons exceeded its
rights in demanding the accounts, and
acted in manner derogatory to the
rights and privileges of the corporation.
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DRIVEN BACK BY THE FLAMES.
a Revelation

among the butchers. A stampede in
beef circles. Beef, mutton and pork
for cash 0aly. Porterhouse and tender
loin steak, 121z cents per pound; prime
roast, I2H cents per pound; round
steak, 8 cents per pound; chuck steak,
8 cents per pound; boiling beef, s cents
per pound; loin and legs of mutton, s
cents per pound; chops; cents per
pound; breasts and necks of mutton, 5
cents pei. pound; pork chops, cents
per pound; pork roasts and sausage, s
cents per pound. On all of the above 4
special reduction for cash only, without
delivery.
By G. D. Amos, Butcher,
Cor. Third South and Main Streets.
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His Birthday Treat.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 1S.-The
President, tonight, ON tn. evening of his
5Oth birthday attended the performance
OF Thatcher, Primrose and Vests
Minstrals, at the National Theatre. The
occupants of the Presidents box were
Mrs. Hoyt, Miss Jewett, of Buffalo, and
Colonel and Mrs. Lamont.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19
The Chicago Anarchists Case.

CHICAGO, March 1S.-A NeWs special
from Ottawa, H.. says: speaking OF
The possibilities in relation to the deci-
sion in the Anarchist case, Judge Scho-
field, of the Supreme Court, said to a
Ne,rs rep resentative this evening that,
in case of reversal and ordering of q
new trial, the opinion of the court
would be sent here and would be made
public as soon as it arrived at it, but in
case the decision of the lower court is
affirmed the public will not be appriSed
of the fact until the court meets again,
at Ottawa, which will be in September
next. In case of affirmation the
court must fix the date
of execution, and must do it in
open court and in the district
where the scase belongs. The court will
adjourn its session here next week, and
it is, of course, impossible for the
court to examine the bulky record and
return an opinion before adjournment.
1t follows that it will be impossible for
the Anarchists to be hanged before
next fall. The sentence cannot be af-
fiTmed and the day of execution fixed
before the first Tuesday in September.
About month would doubt
less be allowed between the af-
frmation and the day OF execution.
The reds" therefore, need have no
fear of being hanged before October.
Judge Scott is expected to return from
California about April LIST and he will
participate in deciding the case. Since
the arguments have been made the
prevailing opinion here seems to be
that the verdict in the court below Will
be sustained by the Supreme Court:
Mr.. Sweet returned to. Chicago at
O'Clock. The other counsel will return
tomorrow.
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Bully for Buffalo Bill.

OMAHA, March Is Governor Thayer
has commissioned W. F. Cody buffalo
Bill as aide-de-camp on his staff, with
the rank of colonel and also as COM
miss ioner of Nebraska to the American
exhibition in LonGon
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SiCkies' viii.

New York, March 1s.-The viii of
the late G. G. Sickles is understood to
dispose about SIS ,Ooo, OG0 worth of prop
ertv. Each of his daughters receive
$50 600. his widow a third, and his only
heir, General Sickles, the residue.
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Mexican Railway stock

LONDON. March 18.-Mattheson q Co.
have offered for public subscription,
SIG, SOC, 900 worth of 6-per cent. gold
bonds of the denomination of 81 600
each, of the Mexican National Railway
Company at go pei cent.
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The Fires Victims.

BUFFALO, March 1S-As far as can be
ascertained, the dead are as follows:
Katie Kent, Minnie Kelly and Kate
Pearce. servants; Wilson Purcell, Mark
Osborne, day clerk at the hotel, a Mr..
Johnson, Toronto railway man; Kate
Wolf, servant, of Lockport.
THE DYING ARE:
Jacob Kahn, New York, Henry Rum
sey, New York, Maggie Mulrach,
Buffalo, Mary Nolan, Buffalo, and Ed
ward Wheelan, Newburgh. The others
who were seriously burned or injured
are as follows: j. 81. French, Scranton,
Pa; NJ. Moore, Cleveland, O.; w. A.
Haven. Helena, Mont; G. W. Dubois,
Syracuse, N Y; w. ]. Mann, Mrs.
Mann, Jennie Mann, Buffalo; Mills
Barse, Clean, NY; Matt Shannon,
Charles Clinton Bidweli; Minnie
Wellers, Mrs. Katie Pierce, Nellie
WEIGH, Netde Harvey, all of Buffalo );
Barry Davies and George F. Michaels
both of New York, and w. J. Mackay,
OF Niagara Falls. A German girl named
Walch, is believed also to be among the
dead. The walls of the burned build
ing are
MENACE TO LIFE,
and until they are RACED and the ruins
cooled, no search for the bodies can be
made. 1t is undoubtedly a fact that
at least thirty persons persisted.
THE TOTAL Loss.
by the fire will be S4OO 600 on the hotel
and museum buildings, which were in
sured for 100000. Fuller & Townsend,
clothiers, were insured for $45 600; their
stock was total loss and was valued at
100000. Peter Paul & Bro, and Al
brich d Kingley. stationers, each lose
SAC, 600, with $50, 900 insurance. Several
minor losses were sustained.
ROCHESTER,, March 1S.-Seyeral sur
vivors of the hotel fire at Buffalo are in
this city. Winfield 5. Dewey was quite
seriously burned about the face and
head. His hair was all burned off and
his right foot was badly burned. He
had room on the second floor aud was
awakened by the bell. He attempted to
escape by the hall, but was
DRIVEN BACK BY THE FLAMES.
He was rescued from his window by
fremen. Max Dahlman. clothier, es-
capped by jumping two stories onto an
adjoining building. W. 2. Lam, an III
surance adluster, narrowly escaped with
his life; he was. taken from the fire
pspanp
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Good Luck to EN-.

LONDON, March IS Two hundred and
thirtv-fve members of the House of
Commons have signed memorial in
favor of the prevention of the publica-
ton OF offensive details in divorce cases.
They will meet next week to decide
how to bring the subject before Parlia
ment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19

CATARRH CURED, health and
sweet breath secuted, by Shiloh's
Catarrh Remedy. Price 90 cents. Nasal
Injector free. Sold by A. c. Smith d
Co. druggists. 4
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ASKING A SUSPENSION

OF Rule of his circular of February
18th, prescribing that wheel chains
shall be driven so that the wheel and
helm shall move in the same direction
the observance of which; they represen
will be attended with considerable
trouble and Inconvenience to them. 1t
is ascertained that the method of steer
ing steam vessels is required by the rule
but that the Cleveland steamers have
adopted the system in use on sailing
vessels, that is, to reave the wheel
chains so that the wheel and helm shall
move in opposite directions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19
FLOODED.
Results of the Gorge Break
at Bismarck.
THE COUNTRY Is INUNDATED.
A Warehouse 100 Feet Long Moved
Bodily Over Thirty Feet
Other Mention
A GOrgs-Break

BISMARCK, OAK, March 18.-The
Washburn gorge broke last night and
early this morning the river began to
rise rapidly. A gorge was formed below
the city. The ice carried everything
with it and struck an immense ware
house on the Northern Pacific, one of
the largest in the world. The workmen
NARROWLY ESCAPED DROWNING
and in less than two minutes time the
gorge water was in the second stories of
the river boarding houses, which had
been built on what was considered high
ground. The warehouse. which is
nearly 700 feet in length, vas
moved bodily over thirty feet
and sent crashing against the bluffs.
The loss on this building will be over
$l5, 900. The meadow land south of
comprising 5000 acres, is
now one-vast sea, and is flowing over
newly made channels, in this body of
surplus water, at the rate of ten miles
an hour, The river at this point, which
is usually three-quarters of mile,
is now over
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19
"Roueh on Bile" Pills

Small granules. snail dose, big results,
pleasant in operation, don't disturb the
stomach. 25c. 8
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Washington Words.

WASHINGTON, March 49, = Instruc-
tons have been issued to the superin-
tendants of lifesavlng districts embrac-
ing the lakes, to man their stations and
put them into operation at the opening
OF navigation. The stations in the lower
districts will begin operations April 1st,
and others between that date and the
18th prOximo.
The Treasury Department is informed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19
OPIUM IS BEING sMuaaLEp

" .UPIUM IS BEING SMUGGLED
into the United States through the De-
troit and Suspension Bridge districts,
and is then shipped to San Francisco,
where it is placed on the market. Ac-
cording to the reports received on the
subject, the opium is shipped from
China through British Columbia, and
thence across the lakes.
General Dumont, supervising inspec
tor-generaI of steam,yessels. has received
letter from the officers of the Cleve-
land Vessel Owners Association, com
prising about one-half of the steam
tonnage on the lakes,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19
MOVING INTO TIE UPPER STORIES

of their dwellings. ALI the small build
ings on the banks Of the stream haye
been swept away, or destroyed, and the
steamboats, lying at Rockhaven are in
danger. The high trestle of the Northern
Pacific, at this point, has been dafhagea.
At l o'clock the new channel which the
river has cut across the prairie let out
the ice, and the river is falling
slowly, but the worst has not come.
The ice went out at Fort Buford5
this morning with rise of thirty feet,
the highest ever known. This food will
not reach here until Saturday, when
there will probably be terrible destruc
ton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-19
NARROWLY ESCAPED DROWNING
SIX MILES IN WIDTH.

The Northern Pacific trains will hardly
be able to cross the river for
several days and Bismarck will probably
be the western terminus for a week.
Supt. Graham attempted to go to Men
dan, but the water on the west side
of the river is flowing over the track
four feet and the fires in the engine
were put out Mendan is submerged
and the people in the lower part of the
city have been -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-12
OTHER LATE NEWS.

The ministry OF New South Wales has
resigned.
Part of a human body was found in load
of ashes at Port Richmond, l.. l., Tuesday
The case of Father Fitzgerald VS.. Arch.
bishop Williams was continued in Boston,
Tuesday, the Archbishop being on the stand
The funeral of John Roach will take place
on Thursday. The workmen of the Morgan
Iron Works will attend the funeral In a BODY
T. p. Ellis & Co., importers and iobbers OF
cutlery and notions, As Chauncey street,
Boston, have assigned with liabilities at 500,
900.
1t is reported that Walter Martin & Co.,
shoe manufacturers, will remove their estab.
lishment from Dover, N. H., to Danvers,
Mass.
At meeting today of the directors of the
South Boston Horse Railroad it was voted
not to accept the offer of the metropolitan
Railroad for consolidation with that road.
hill was introduced in the legislature of
Springfield. Illinois, appropriating $50 00C
toward the erection of monument to Gen.
Logan in Chicago
DR.. f. E. Roy, French Canadian physi
clan. was arrested, Tuesday on a charge o.
burglarizing a store at Lowell, Mass. Over
$500 worth of stolen goods were fouHd in hi,
rooms.
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Washington Items.
WASHINGTON, Jan, II.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ii.
1t is understood that negotiations with the
Chinese government for such modification
Of the existing treaties rs will certainly pre-
vent the introduction of Chinese coolle labor
into this country has just been brought TO Z
successful termination. In few days the
amended treaty concerning this point will be
submitted TO the Senate for ratification
Among the estimates for heating apparatus
for new buildings submitted TO the House is
the sum of $500 for Augusta, Me.
The House committee OH claims TODAY dis
cussed the bill to reimburse the depositors of
the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Co. tor
their losses by the failure of the company.
Final action was not taken, but the commit
tee generally favored the bill. The bill ap-
prepriates Sl,000,000 to be disbursed among
the depostors.
The Senate, in secret session, has passed a
resolution advising the President to enter
into negotiations with Nicaragua for conces-
sions for an inter-ocearic canal.
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A PRETTY STATE OF AFFAIRS.
Prominent Men of Washington County,
Texas. Exiled Because They Were Re-
publicans.
WASHINGTON. Jan. IL

WAsHlNGTON. Jan. II.
A petition of Stephen A. Hackworth, real
estate broker, Jas. L. Moore, merchant,
and Carl Schurz, exdistrct attorney of
Washington county, and editor of the Bren
ham Stats Zeitung, was presented today by
Senator Hawley. 1t sets forth that they
were law abiding citizens of Brenham Wash
ington county, Texas, who dared to believe
and maintain the right to be republicans In
politics, for this their only crime, 1t continues,
your petitioners are now exiles from their
homes, having been compelled to leave un-
der serious threats of assassination and to
abandon their property or accept for it such
prices as were proffered them" The petition
states that at the election held on the 2d of
last November, "a perfect reign of terror ex-
listed in Washington county, caused by
armed bands OF white ruffians, who by vio-
lence and by destruction of ballot boxes
prevented free and fair expression of suf-
frage. Every effort made to obtain redress
for wrongs and security for life and property,
has been prevented by wanton and cruel
murder of important witnesses, and by fur
ther fact that the body of State troops osten-
sIbly ordered TO the county, to preserve law
and order, in fact acted in open concert with
the lawless men who had committed the elec-
ton ontrages."
cans are in a majority in Washington county,
but IN order to prevent the republicans from
securing there political rights, three colored
republicans were arrested on pretended and
malicious charges of crime, and while in Gus
tody of the civil authorities were surrendered
to the Ku KIux and hanged for the reason
that the civil authorities of Washington
county. together with their leading political
friends, well knowing that adequate evidence
would be obtained at such trial which would
expose their political crimes, ordered and in
stigated the death of these republicans. The
petitioners further allege that the Governor
of Texas has failed to make anv effort to
have arrested aud brough to trial the lawless
men who committed this outrage, slthou gh
the facts were made known to him. The pc
tition concludes BY asking Congress to take
such action as will remedy the evils cited,
and secure to all citizens their rights.
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W EATfiER REPORT.
MAINE DISPATCHES.
FIRES IN ANDROsCOGGIN.
Burned Out on Chilly Night in Auburn
Uncle Solan Homeless.
LEWISTON, Jan. !

LEWISTON, Jan. II.
The house of Royal Pearl on summer
street, Auburn, was burne d at about half past
one, Tuesday morning. The fire caught In
the roof, probably from the chimney and
when tn. alarm was given was blazing. The
house was badly gutted. Much of the furni-
ture was destroyed. IL was a chilly night
for the hremen and the house is a long dis
tance from the city engine house. The house
was Insured tor 81 500 IN the Hartford In-
ourance Company 10 Chamberlain & Webbs
agency, and is thought 10 be total loss SIS
far as the Insurance company Is concerned.
The furniture was insured for 500 in A. A.
Miller & Co.'S agency. The loss is thought to
be about $3.50.
Tuesday afternoon the dwelling of Solon
Chase, at Chase's Mills, was discovered to
be on fire, and all efforts to save the building
were truitiess The house was one-story,
with an ell. The fire was first discovered IN
the parlor, and it is supposed it must have
caught from the chimney. The. value was
was about 81 600. Insured for S400.